Tuesday, 17 June 2014

The middle east never ceases to amaze.
The arab ISIS assassins gave a swift kick at Mosul and the whole
rotten Iraqi edifice came crumbling down. General Petreaus' much vaunted military wonder at Falujah is shown to be the smoke and mirrors that it always was. ISIS now commands Falujah with it's own peculiar way of winning hearts and minds, through sheer terror and decapitation.

Years of American lives and US money
are now as nothing. Obama ever the idiot is now readying the US to
send in more money, support and eventually waste even more American lives in the service
of Iran. Because Iraq is the fiefdom of Iran in the areas ruled by the
shiah and far be it from Obama to let his new buddies in Iran take a pasting ( let's not worry about Obama. Whatever he touches turns to dust in the end, and he'll be gone soon in any case).

Iran can not afford to lose Iraq as it
is the major supply route to Assad and to Hezbollah. And in any case
Iran doesn't want ISIS on its border with Iraq so Iran will fight for Iraq with or without US help. But with trillions of dollars of debt, the US like every good gambler is happy to throw some more money away in the forlorn hope things will improve.

All this is as nothing to the Obama's
national security team, unless he's simply ignoring their advice. In
Obama's rush to destroy US credibility throughout the world, what
better policy than to engender more Taliban style killings of US troops, sent to
the battlefield and being virtually forbidden from opening fire in their
defense. Which reminds me, Israeli troops are mighty sick of the same thing. And if you are a Jewish inhabitant of Judea and Samaria
forget about ever using your gun. You will be arrested by Israeli
police, your gun taken away, and no end of further proceedings taken
against you.

This is Israel today where it's better to have a soldier hurt than for him to defend himself. David the Nahlai recently gained much support in Israel after his drawing his weapon was believed to have led to his punishment (It wasn't the reason in this case but IDF soldiers have had so much of this policy of 'havlagah' or 'restraint', as now a bad policy in the 1930's which led not to less attacks, but more and intensified ones against Jews. Orde Wingate changed the policy and the desperate situation of the kibbutzim with his offensive Night Squads. They lay in wait outside arab villages and when the terrorists emerged to shoot up and burn Jewish villages they were themselves destroyed. The British new it in the 1930's, the Jews won the 1948 war by defending themselves actively, but now Jewish soldiers need to be social workers protecting the interests of their enemies ).

So okay lets get to Chief of Staff
Gantz. Now you would expect him to have a certain relief that his
neighbours to the north and east are somewhat embroiled at the
moment. Not a chance:

Gantz says conflict in Syria could
continue for more than a decade; warns that both Hezbollah and World
Jihad gaining strength in Syria.

Israeli generals as their politicians
have little strategic horizon, so Gantz of course doesn't understand that
the first part of his sentence necessarily contradicts the latter
half. If the war goes on for a decade neither Hezbollah, Iran, the
sunni al Qaida gangs or anyone else will be in much position to take
on Israel. And in that time Israel will have relative peace, as long
as it keeps its defense posture secure.

The present Israeli Defense Minister is
thankfully on the ball unlike effete Barak and that labor union guy before
him. Whereas Barak during the second intifada and afterwards, was nonchalant about Jews being slaughtered by suicide bombers, for Sderot
and the south of Israel to get hammered year after year, Ya'alon made
it clear the rules have changed.

So the rockets still come but
not every shabbat morning in time for synagogue service and shabbat lunch, not
every day when the kids are walking to and from school. Yes the terrorists know Israel's timetable exactly and used to time the rockets accordingly. Sometimes that helped locate and destroy the rocket squads . Things are now
very much better in the south. Ya'alon understands that in this
region, the only way you get peace is not by smiling and giving away your silver,
but by carrying a cosh and grimacing at your enemy.

And Ya'alon fits in with the Israeli street
now. Apart from the usual feeble minds which along with Nobel prizes, Jews
seem to be endowed with in larger numbers than is their fair share,
Israelis understand that to show weakness to arabs, to free murderers
for nothing, as 'gestures', is to invite further attack.

And that attack has come with the
kidnapping of the yeshivah students. May God grant them a quick and
safe return. Of course the lower level attacks nowadays are counted
in the hundreds each month, and collated in the monthly Low IntensityConflict Report.

Until Israel was tested in the 1st
Intifada and found wanting, there were virtually no attacks on Jews
in Judea and Samaria. The fear of 1948 and 1967 was still in their minds. I know because I travelled all over the area
during part of that time. Then the human rights era started and
palestinians were allowed to attack Israeli soldiers for the benefit
of the cameras on a daily basis. This undermined Israel's reputation
for robustness with the arabs as regards deterrence, and with the rest of the world
with regards Israel's respect of human rights.

With all the cameras,
the odd lapse by a soldier instantly got, and gets beamed around the world. Rather
than be seen for what it is, a human rights respecting bastion,
Israel is besmirched as an apartheid state with impunity, and there's
the pallywood filming in abundance to 'prove' it.

Some time soon people will begin to
wake up because the never ending violence coming out of arab
countries is getting intense, it will be all but impossible even for
the most misled to ignore the fact that Israel is not the problem, but the
arab, and those darlings known as 'Balestinians' ( pronounced the arab
way, as they can not pronounce the 'P'. Fancy that, a 'people' who
can't even utter the name of their own country properly. Something
fishy there to start with).

Our poor:

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz
said Monday that only a handful of states have more firepower than
Hezbollah.

Okay the man has sleepless nights and
does a magnificent job showing the al Nusrah types and shia on the
borders that when they mortar Israel it's no longer forgive and
forget like in the 1950's all the way up to 1967. If they mortar
Israeli communities they get a Tammuz missile up the tochos about 5
minutes later, or less. And lo and behold, rather than this becoming
a 'cycle of violence' as the european fools like to berate Israel,
the Syrian border is mostly quiet. A little education goes a long way
in this region.

But the General is clearly worried:

Speaking at the Herzliya Conference at
the Interdisciplinary Center, Gantz said, "Show me four or five
states with more firepower than Hezbollah: the US, China, Russia,
Israel, France, the UK."

Okay, but they need all that firepower
to protect Israel. Sorry? Come again? PROTECT Israel? Yes.

Without
Hezbollah and all its weaponry on the borders of Syria and Lebanon
the sunni jihadis would be able to munch their sandwiches opposite
the guard post at Rosh Haniqra whilst taking the odd pot shot, at
point blank range.

The Chief worries too much about the
firepower of Hezbollah and all the training it is getting in the
field. Hezbollah are shi as in Iran, Assad's gang of Alawites and
Maliki's domain of Baghdad. They are but a tenth the size of the
sunni world, and if only they weren't such fanatical believers in the
second coming of the Mahdi, they'd be buying their houses in Park
Lane and Paris, just in case.

As it is they have to make do with
renting houses in Thailand, Argentina and Bulgaria, but I digress,
as that's for wholly different purposes.

Going from a stable shia ruled Syria
two years ago that could put around a thousand tanks into Israel in a
future war, Allah forbid, Iran now is fighting a war in Syria and now
Iraq. Hezbollah has lost around 500 men so far in Syria.

It's not so
much fun to lose around 10% of your men on the battlefield (including top commanders of Hezbollah and the IRGC), and to
know that there is not only no end in sight, but that there's so far
not been so much as a peep from the Mahdi to say when he's gonna come
and finish of those Jews and infidel apostate sunni muslims.

Of course Hezbollah is busy training up
thousands of replacements, and so are the sunni jihadists, and so the
party is getting bigger and better, and the carnage is set to
increase exponentially.

And so:

Gantz said that Syria was falling apart
"like a house of cards," and no outcome was good for
Israel.

Sorry old boy. Just hold onto your hat,
steady your nerve and get ready for the ride. You might even have
just a little faith in the good Lord who has sent miracle upon
miracle to the benefit of a state that otherwise could never have
even got off the ground in 1948. If Christy Anastas can believe with her
somewhat garbled understanding of our history that the survival of
Israel is part of God's intention, for the world, “a Covenant“ ,
then you can surely afford to relax a little.

ISIS has been braying in the last few
days about their caliphate coming to fruition, and however much Obama
might move to help them, they are going to have a long hard slog,
just as was predicted

here

The rock of Iran (and its ally Assad and proxy Hezbollah) has hit the
hard sunni world, a world unforgiving of those they see as apostates
threatening their very regimes. A world full of extremist madrassas
with students just longing to become involved in the fight against the
shia 'heretics', as they see them.

The USA and Russia should sit this one out as it has little to do with them, and much to do with islam.
But the USA and Russia will not sit on the sidelines, more pity for the
region, and also for Israel, although it might continue to be spared
direct involvement.

Israel has been the wisest actor in the region, keeping its cool,
growling menacingly and acting firmly when its interests are threatened
or missiles, mortars or even bullets come over the border on the Golan
Heights. Hamas learned last November that the rules have changed, that
Israel will no longer tolerate its border communities being terrorized

The carnage we have seen this week is
as nothing to what is about to happen, and whilst it does Amalek will
be steadily weakened so that Israel will hopefully have peace for a generation,
quite a lot for us Jews.

All General Gantz needs to do is pick
the time he bombs Iran's nuclear installations. God expects us to
help ourselves to some extent, and Israel might need to clear
Hezbollah from south Lebanon and allow its hostile population to
escape the fighting, if Hezbollah does indeed attack Israel. If so, the most
foolhardy thing to do would be to allow the shia civilian population
back into the border after the inevitable ceasefire to start things up again.

If Israel is attacked, then in its
defense it will be entitled to extend its borders up to the Litani
river, an ancient border of Israel, and a natural defense line. The
line could then be settled with Jews or any mix of loyal allies such
as Christians and druze. Even Walid Jumblatt who humbled himself with
such bad timing before Assad, the son of his father's murderer, even
Jumblatt is very possibly asking himself if a lifetime's hostility to
Israel has been a mistake. Sandwhched between sunni and shia
violence, Jumblatt will himself begin to feel the heat before long.

We must learn from Russia, that if you attack us, we will not give you anything other than a bloody nose, and we'll also take back our ancient lands as compensation. A growing population means there will never be a problem settling and defending the new borders.

So things are not half bad for Israel
with a strong economy, a strong army and an ever increasing and young
population. All that is needed is a little faith.